Daily Links 9/8

Cousy ain’t shy in questioning the coaching.

He also noted what will happen in 4-5 years and how hard it will be to rebuild the team at that time and why. This is what we’ve found hard to understand over the last few years. DA’s done a remarkable job regardless of what the results will be. The Laker’s, especially, and Phoenix probably had a better shot at KG at first, but didn’t have the guts to give up a good player which is what it would have taken.

The article in yardbarker about the top 5 sleepers in the draft is all wrong. Yes, Rodney Stuckey and Nick Young are fine players, but that’s why they wre picked picked 15th and 16th overall. They aren’t sleepers. Stephan Lasme is a one-trick pony. He’s 6-7 and skinny, and does not possess even power forward offensive skills, never mind small forward skills. He can’t dribble, shoot or pass. I won’t even comment on the others.

The real sleepers are Glen Davis, Kyrylo Fesenko, Derrick Byara and Reyshaun Terry. Every one of those guys has first round talent and was taken with picks ranging from #35 through #44. Terry was probably North Carolina’s best player, but because he was a team player on a great team he did not put up eye-popping numbers. IMHO either Terry or Derrick Byars is the next Josh Howard. Fesenko is very active and athletic, and is every bit as good as ZaZa Pachulia was when ZaZa came into the league. As for Davis, he is the second coming of Antoine Walker without Walker’s horrible shot selection. I just hope the Celtics can keep Davis after he becomes a restricted free agent. They can only pay him the median salary; they will have “Early Bird” rights, not full Bird rights.

I find the name Jackson and the word shack in the same sentence blastphemous.

I don’t think you’ll have much to worry about, Brick, barring major injury woes or hopefully, an unlikely coaching change from our coach-for-life.

Davis probably won’t see the light of an NBA court until mid to late season…as is Rivers’ standard for rookies. I don’t think he’ll have enough court time to showcase himself to be beyond median value.

I watched the HOF induction ceremonies and thought Jackson gave a very nice speech. Firast, I hadn’t realized that Jackson’s college coach at North Dakota was Bill Fitch. So he played for both Fitch and Holzman— not too shabby.

He also recounted something that Holzman told him: basketball isn’t rocket science, you stay in front of your man on defense and hit the open man on offense.

LOL
Those “real important stats” are just crazy. ;D

iowa plowboy said:
  I don’t think you’ll have much to worry about, Brick, barring major injury woes or hopefully, an unlikely coaching change from our coach-for-life.

Davis probably won’t see the light of an NBA court until mid to late season…as is Rivers’ standard for rookies. I don’t think he’ll have enough court time to showcase himself to be beyond median value.

Barring injury, I think Davis will be the first big man off the bench by the end of the year.

The hype on Jared Jordan was a bit of a reach. He may survive as a back-up PG but SUPERSTAR? Don’t get me wrong. I love his court vision, passing ability and handles but his shooting will be very average against NBA defenses, he’s slow afoot, lacks desirable height to compensate for his lack of athleticism and will be a defensive liabilty.

Despite this rather gloomy NBA forecast, he could have been the emergency back-up PG that the Celtic’s could have used, instead of the SG they selected (Pruit)…